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First Mariner Books edition 2009
Compilation copyright © 2008 by The Estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell
Foreword copyright © 2008 by George Packer
Introduction copyright © 2008 by Keith Gessen
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Essays collected from The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison,
OBE, published in Great Britain in 1998 by Secker & Warburg. Grateful
acknowledgement is made to Peter Davison for permission to draw from his notes.
Excerpts from "The Dry Salvages" in Four Quartets, copyright 1941 by
T. S. Eliot and renewed 1969 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Excerpts from "East Coker" in Four Quartets, copyright 1940 by T. S. Eliot
and renewed 1968 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Excerpt from "Spain" from Selected Poems, Expanded Edition
by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelsohn. Used by permission
of Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Orwell, George, 1903–1950.
All art is propaganda: critical essays/by George Orwell; compiled by George Packer;
with an introduction by Keith Gessen.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Packer, George, 1960—II. Title.
PR6029.R8A626 2008
824'.912—dc2 2 2008012356
ISBN 978-0-15-101355-5
ISBN 978-0-15-603307-7 (pbk.)